{"id":5276,"date":"2009-02-04T19:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5276"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:10:28","slug":"gamefly-acquires-shacknews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gamefly-acquires-shacknews\/","title":{"rendered":"GameFly Acquires Shacknews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8360\" alt=\"shacknews\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shacknews.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" \/>FEB. 4, 2009 \u2022 The GameFly games-by-mail service acquired the Shacknews news and community online site. Shacknews averages up to 3 million unique users per month, and is expected to provide GameFly with an original source of game-related content, as well as a conduit to market GameFly&#8217;s service. Shacknews was launched in 1996 as a game fan site.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: In the current economic climate the prospects for game rentals should be bright. GameFly doesn&#8217;t have the same reputation for efficiency as Netflix, however. Acquiring Shacknews will give GameFly an established online community to better communicate with existing and potential customers at a time when it can expect greater, and perhaps more efficient, competition on its turf.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 4, 2009 \u2022 The GameFly games-by-mail service acquired the Shacknews news and community online site. Shacknews averages up to 3 million unique users per month, and is expected to provide GameFly with an original source of game-related content, as well as a conduit to market GameFly&#8217;s service. Shacknews was launched in 1996 as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}